Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.5 install (video’s incl).

XenApp 7.5 and XenDesktop 7.5 are released to the web today and there was a lot of discussion on twitter about this release. A lot of info about this release can be found on the eDocs. Important pages are Features not in this release en Known Issues, please read them careful before starting.

As was stated on twitter, the installation bits for XenDesktop and XenApp 7.5 are the same and the differentiator should be the license that’s imported on the license server. I was curious if the installation would differ between XenApp and XenDesktop so I made a video of both installations (not the configuration) and uploaded them on YouTube just to show the easy of installation and the similarities between those installers:

The XenApp 7.5 install:

The XenDesktop 7.5 install:

Both installations were done within 8 minutes and that’s pretty good when looking at the hardware used (old compellent storage with a 2 node Hyper-V 2.0 cluster on top). It’s safe to say that the installation is pretty seamless and doesn’t consume a lot of time so credits to Citrix for making the installation this easy. Now for the configuring part.. Which will probably a next blogpost.

Kees Baggerman

Kees Baggerman is a Staff Solutions Architect for End User Computing at Nutanix. Kees has driven numerous Microsoft and Citrix, and RES infrastructures functional/technical designs, migrations, implementations engagements over the years.

I used SQL 2012 Express with SP1 on a separate machine and I had the same error. After a while I found the following article:

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Thijs Michiels wrote:

“I’m using SQL Server 2012 Express and I found the following things I needed to do in order to get it to work:

Open the SQL Server Configuration Manager
Expand SQL Server Network Configuration – Protocols for SQLEXPRESS
Enable TCP/IP
Right click TCP/IP and open Properties
Check the IP2 settings reflect the servers IP address and subnet
Check IPAll and ensure that Dynamic Ports is blank and make sure that the TCP port is set to 1433